Data collection rates at RHIC

• Main limitations are:

  
  
  • data recording capacity...
    ~20Mb/s
    
  • data storage...
    $ available
    
  • cpu requirements...
    $ available

• Expected rates:

  
  
  • 250 Hz, 10 Kb/event
  • 80 Tb/year
    
  • 70 Hz, 300Kb/event
  • 800 Tb/year
  • 70 GFlops
    
  • 200 Hz, 18 Kb/event
  • 60 - 430 Tb / year
  • 40 GFlops
    
  • 1 Hz, 16 Mb/event
  • 300 Tb /year
  • 200 GFlops

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